The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
BARREL SCRAPERS has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 106 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BARREL SCRAPERS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after BARREL SCRAPERS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BARREL SCRAPERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 165.1428 | 169.42 | top 26% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 147.9084 | 155.67 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 155.9540 | 159.68 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.7884 | 158.2172 | 158.50 | top 56% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 31% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 397 / 552 (634.6740) | 265 (165.1428) | 515 (147.9084) | 290 (163.4056) | 348 (158.2172) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 164 / 535 (651.8852) | 26 (173.7028) | 182 (163.4400) | 364 (155.9540) | 263 (158.7884) |